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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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Dr. Lancashire, Manchester Summer 
Resident, Would Not Accept 
Nomination as Mayor of His 
Home City. 
From one of our exchanges, an 
Alma, Mich., paper, we publish the 
following item concerning one of 
~ Manchester’s summer residents, Dr. 
J. H. Laneashire, who with his fam- 
ily will again occupy the Hood cot- 
‘tage, on Norton’s Point, the com- 
- ing season: 
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** An unprecedented action in Alma 
republican politics occurred at the 
city convention last Tuesday eve- 
ning when after the convention was 
fully organized and ready for bus- 
_ iness Dr, J. H. Lancashire was nom 
inated for the office of Mayor by Mr 
C. G. Rhodes, his nomination sup. 
ported by delegates representing ev. 
ery ward in the city and a commit- 
_ tee of four appointed to wait on Dr. 
_Laneashire and secure his accept- 
-anee. The convention taking a re- 
- cess, suspending further business un- 
til the committee had time to inter- 
_yiew the gentleman and report. 
- the committee returned and 
Mr. Laneashire deeply appreciated 
After an absence of half an hour 
Mr. 
Rhodes, as chairman, reported that 
the honors conferred but owing to 
_ the fact that his plans were all per- 
fected whereby he would be absent 
from the city during the summer 
-months, he could not be prevailed 
upon to accept the position know- 
Se east, 
of 
ing in advance that he would be un- 
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' able to give the office the attention 
it required. Dr. Lancashire express- 
ed himself as one who believes that 
- when a man accepts a position of 
~ trust he should be in a position to 
perform the duties that go with it. 
_ After the committee’s report had 
been submitted the report was upon 
‘motion accepted with regrets and 
the committee discharged. 
Dr. Lancashire, with his family, 
expect to spend the summer in the 
at Manchester-by-the-Sea, 
Mass.’’ 
At the State House. 
By a vote of 141 to 90 the house 
representatives, Wednesday, 
passed to a third reading the ‘‘bar 
and bottle’’ bill, the effect of which 
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is to prevent saloons from selling 
liquor in bottles to be drunk off the 
premises. 
A roll call was taken on the ques- 
tion of ordering the bill to the third 
reading, on which Representatives 
Ricker of Gloucester and Elwell of 
-Roekport voted against the bill and 
Representatives Allen of Manches- 
ter and Story of Essex, in favor of 
passage to third reading. 
Adjourned Town Meeting. 
The adjourned town meeting will 
be held at Manchester, next Monday 
evening, when the several articles of 
the warrant not acted upon at the 
meeting in March will be taken up. 
The meeting will be called to order 
at 7.30 o’clock. The articles to be 
acted upon include Article 13, ‘‘to 
see if town will appropriate $600 to 
buy apparatus for the playground 
and employ a suitable person to have 
charge during the summer months.’’ 
Articles 34, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, and 52 
will also be taken up. All of these 
articles have been acted upon before, 
but in most cases they were referred 
to the selectmen and this board un- 
doubtedly will be given an oppor- 
tunity to report on what they have 
done in regard to the respective peti- 
tions. 
Parish Meeting. 
The annual meeting of the First 
Parish. in Manchester is ealled for 
next Wednesday evening; April 6, 
at the Congregational chapel at 7.30 
o’clock. The articles of the warrant 
call for the report of the officers and 
committees and election of officers 
and other matters of business which 
usually come before the body. 
Hamilton Visited by Worse Fire in 
Its History. 
The little town of Hamilton was 
visited by the most serious fire in 
its history, last Firday, and the loss 
will be a severe blow to the town. 
The fire started shortly after noon 
and fanned by the high winds the 
flames had eaten up 25 buildings of 
one sort and another before it was 
checked toward the middle of the 
afternoon. 
The fire started just to the north 
of the Wenham-Hamilton station and 
it carried everything before it, leav- 
ing not as much as an ember. Every- 
thing in its path was burned to ash- 
es, leaving the thickly built section 
at this point, the fire jumped to the 
Dr. Cilley property and cleaned that 
out. Then to the Thomas dog ken- 
nels, destroying part of this prop- 
erty. 
It left the town ina erippled con- 
dition. 
Hamilton is without water service 
and its fire apparatus is in the hand- 
tub stage. The help summoned from 
Beverly, Salem and Peabody could 
do very little as the available water 
was limited. The loss was estimat- 
ed at $150,000, and the insurance 
was said to be about $60,000. 
Insert your want advs in The 
Breeze classified column. 
Complete Program for the Re-dedi- 
cation of Baptist Church, ~ 
Manchester. 
The re-dedication services of the 
First Baptist church, Maachester, 
begin on Sunday morning, April 10, 
and continues through Wednesday, 
April 13. The program wili be as 
follows: 
Sunday, April 10, 10:45 a. in., re- 
dedication sermon by the pastor, 
Rev. Theodore Lyman Frost, sub- 
ject: “‘The Mission of the Chwch,”’ 
followed by the re-dedieation cere- 
mony; 3.15 p. m., service with an 
address by Rev. James E. Norcross 
of Boston; 7.00 p. m., service with 
address by Rev. Prof. Henry K. 
Rowe, D. D., of Newton Theological 
Institution, professor of church his- 
tory. ; 
Monday, April 11, 7.30 p. m., ser- 
vice with addresses by Rev. C. Hi. 
Spaulding, D. D., and Rev. W. E. 
Witter, D. D. 
Tuesday, April 12, 6.45 p. m., ban- 
quet for all the friends of the chureh. 
Tickets 75 cents each. Tickets must 
be obtained on or before April 5, of 
members of the committee or of the 
pastor. They can be obtained at the 
church on Tuesday evening, April 5. 
There will be a number of after-din- 
ner speakers at the banquet, Rev. 
KE. H. Brewster, Rev. Clarence. S. 
Pond, Charles H. Fleming, W. W. 
Main,- Hon. Charles H:  Trowt. 
George Allyn Brown will be the 
pianist, and Roy Hartman will be the 
reader. 
Wednesday, April 13, grand recit- 
al on the new Estey memorial organ 
at 8 p.m. Claude E. Saunier, ma- 
sonic organist in Boston, also organ- 
ist at one of the large Cambridge 
churches, will be the recital organ- 
ist; Mrs. Blanche Heimburghe Kil- 
duff, soloist at the Harvard Congre- 
gational church in Brookline, will be 
the soprano soloist; Miss Eleanor 
Whitman, a very talented young 
violinist will also play. That all 
may feel able to yo, tickets have 
been placed at 25 cents. These who 
wish to procure reserved seats can 
do so by applying at the chureh, on 
Friday afternoon, April 8, from 2 to 
5 p.m., or by applying to the paster. 
Reserved. seats are 25 cents extra. 
Peddler’s Parade. 
The peddler’s parade and vaude- 
ville to be given at the Beverly City 
hall, Monday evening, April 11, for 
the benefit of the Beverly Hospital, 
will attract many people from the 
North Shore towns, who are deeply 
interested in the welfare of the hos- 
pital. The tickets are 25 cents each. 
